take justice mcreynolds. he was a classical conservative who valued private rights over government regulations. so in the carroll case, he voted for the petitioners, the carroll brothers, because he viewed them as private property, which meant that the government needed to get a warrant. three years later, in 1928, the court decided in homestead versus united states, which was another prohibition case where the government had wiretapped the phones in the defendants' h ouses. in that case, mcreynolds voted for the government. and it wasn't that he changed his mind about prohibition, he wrote it because the government made it clear that the prohibition agents in the wiretaps didn't trespass, so they do not enter the private space. on the public side was justice brandeis. brandeis understood the public/private framework, but unlike mcreynolds, he valued public rights over private rights. he voted for the government in carroll because he appreciated the government need for motor vehicles, which are really dangero